Chapter 452 A Clue
That magical Heaven-Earth Blood Bone could increase the flying speed. Without hesitation, Ding Hao assimilated it into his own Qi Seed.
With that magical skill, Ding Hao’s speed increased almost tenfold. After mastering that magical skill, his flying speed was comparable to that of the superiors in seven-apertured Martial King realm. Like some rare escaping techniques, Ding Hao named it “Fast Flying Ming Ming,” which could last for an hour. Of course, it consumed Qi ten times more than flying without skills.
Time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.
Ding Hao was practicing while traveling in the primeval forests. After walking for thousands of kilometers, he still couldn’t see the edge of the forest. At that time, he felt he had really underestimated the Sage Battlefield. The silver ring assigned to his partners before, which could sense each other, only worked within hundreds of kilometers. It wouldn’t work in such a vast forest.
In half a month, Ding Hao never came across others.
He killed a lot of ominous beast and got a few more “Heaven-Earth Blood Bones.” However, after some close observations, he found that they were ordinary magic skills which were not very useful to him. So he just kept them, instead of assimilating them.
During those days, Ding Hao had perfected the “Seven Black Cut.” Those seven kinds of cutting methods could be used with either sword or saber. They exploited the advantages of Ding Hao’s mighty physical strength, his Heaven Fire Qi and the Hell Ice Qi to the fullest. Later, he simply abandoned some combat techniques such as the “Wen Qing Saber Technique,” the “Lightning-Chasing Central Swordsmanship,” and the “Strong Wind Lightning Saber.” He specialized in the “Seven Black Cut.”
The seven kinds of cutting methods of “Seven Black Cut” contained the essence of all the combat skills that Ding Hao was proficient with.
Ding Hao was on a martial arts road where he created his own combat skills.
His strength was also increasing rapidly.
In the past two days, he had felt the turbulence of the tremendous Qi in his body. So it was time to impact the second aperture of the “Yang Ming Sixth Channel of Hand.” When he was about to enter the Two-Apertured Great Grandmaster realm, his cultivation of Sword Intent and the Invincible Fighting Method were also improving quickly.
“‘Reverse Cut’ of the ‘Seven Black Cut’!” Ding Hao shouted out.
In the twilight, Ding Hao spun, and the blade light poured out like a stripe. He moved out and cut a giant fire rhinoceros into halves.
He slowly wiped off the blood on the “Golden Sun” giant saber’s blade and looked up at the distant sky. It was already at twilight when the primeval forest was ten thousand times more dangerous than in the day. He needed to find a safe place to spend the night before sunset. That fire rhino was a dominator of all beasts in a hundred kilometers area, so after its death, the territory was temporarily ownerless; it would be relatively safe within a short time.
Ding Hao collected some blood of the fire rhino, dismembered the giant body, and picked some tender meat for dinner.
The bonfire was blazing, and the scent of the barbecue wafted out.
Ding Hao sat in front of the fire impatiently.
Forty-seven days had passed since he entered the Sage Battlefield, and he had yet to exit that primeval forest. “Is this world full of forests? Here is much more dangerous than I had expected. Are Li Yiruo, Li Canyang, and the others still alive now?” Ding Hao thought.
When thinking about it, Ding Hao was a little bit preoccupied.
After spending so many days living dangerously, he hunted and killed ominous beasts or was being chased by them. He lived a savage life. Even if Ding Hao had lived two lives, he couldn’t help getting tired. For the next five months, if he still lived such a monotonous life, he would go crazy, even if he got out of the Sage Battlefield alive.
For the first time he felt a little tired.
While he was in a trance, a sudden warning came to his mind.
Ding Hao shook his body and instantly disappeared from that place.
Bang!
With the boom, the dust was rising.
His previous position was swept by an overwhelming sword light, leaving a scary sword mark.
“Well? Someone was behind…” Ding Hao thought.
Ding Hao glanced with his Divine Awareness; everything around him fell into his eyes. He backhanded with a ten-meter-long giant machete—that was a cutting method of the “Seven Black Cut.” The saber intent and saber Qi quickly cut the ground, and wherever they went the rocks, giant trees and water were silently cut into halves from the middle. Under the moon light, the saber Qi went into the dense forest one hundred meters away, and then an exclamation sounded.
“Who? Get out!” Ding Hao said. Ding Hao dragged his long saber and stood quietly.
“Hey, chap, you’re quite alert,” one among four or five young men in tight armor said and stepped out of the dense forest. One of them had blood dripping from his thigh, and the saber mark went deep into the bone. He gnashed his teeth and looked at Ding Hao with hatred. Obviously he was the one that had been hurt by the blade light wielded by Ding Hao.
“Well? Are you also from the Northern Region? From which province?” Ding Hao said with joy. He finally saw his tribesmen. Although those people were obviously hostile, at least they weren’t those strangely-shaped ominous beasts.
“We are from Sword Province!” The leading man in his thirties said. He was stout with lots of fat. In his over-sized tight armor, he looked like a sturdy bear. He showed the long sword in his hand breathlessly.
“Sword Province?”
“The legendary province, one of the largest in the Northern Region, only second to Green Province?” Ding Hao thought.
Rumors said that most of the warriors in Sword Province practiced swordsmanship. There were thousands of human sects within the province, and more than 60% of them were swordsmanship sects. In that case, sword techniques and cultivation had flourished to an extremely prosperous state. Those sword practitioners with great strength were fierce and domineering. If you provoked one of them, that meant you had provoked the whole sect. They were cruel and extremely difficult to deal with.
But Ding Hao was somewhat skeptical.
“Sword Province is the second largest province, and the young geniuses from that province who can enter the Sage Battlefield must be powerful. They are definitely not weaker than those disciples from Ning Province. But why is their strength…?” Ding Hao thought. After perceiving with his Divine Awareness which was in the “Self Heaven and Earth” realm, their strength was no secret to Ding Hao. They were just in the Four-Apertured Great Grandmaster realm.
“Boy, it seems that you’re not simple, since you were able to live in this world for so long. Well, these days you must have gained a lot of benefits. Hey, I see that you’re also a member of the human tribe, so I won’t kill you. Take out all your treasures, or…” The sturdy man sneered with killing intent beaming in his eyes.
The other four also slowly moved and surrounded Ding Hao; all of them looking unfriendly.
“Robbing me? Are you sure?” Ding Hao said with a frown. “I finally encountered a few humans. I never thought they were more unreasonable than fierce beasts. At the very beginning, they wanted to rob. I can’t escape from them, even if I hand out treasures. They seem to be young geniuses of the Northern Region; how could they abandon themselves to vice?” Ding Hao thought.
“Senior Brother Gan, let’s cut the crap. As usual, we fight together and kill him, hehe…” Another thin young man with a terrifying look said while holding something like black jade plate in his hands. He said with a smile, “Don’t worry, the Heavenly Compass shows that he’s just a guy in the One-Apertured Great Grandmaster Peak realm. He’s no match to us at all.”
The others also took out their weapons clamorously.
The stout man said with a grin, “Little brother… well, my brothers are all about to kill you, but I am kind. As long as you hand over all the treasures, I can let you go. Think about it.”
Ding Hao sniggered and mourned for those ignorant and poor acting guys. Then he nodded and said, “Okay, no problem, as long as you hand over everything you have, I will let you go.”
The stout man instinctively smiled and said, “Okay, now you’re talking…” He ended there and suddenly realized that what Ding Hao said was completely different. Then added furiously, “Boy, you’re asking for it…”
Before he had finished his words,
Ding Hao stepped forward gently.
The second movement of “Fight Essential,” named “King Beneath the Heavens” broke out, and an overwhelming momentum emerged from Ding Hao’s body. He instantly pressed those five ignorant ‘robbers’ into kneeling down on the ground. They all dropped their weapons…
“Martial… Martial Emperor?” The stunned stout man knelt down on the ground and stuttered, “You are at the Martial Emperor realm?”
“How… how could this be?” The thin man holding the “Heavenly Compass” stared in amazement. “The pattern on the ‘Heavenly Compass’ just read that he was at the of One-Apertured Great Grandmaster realm. Why did it turn into Martial King? It never made any mistakes before,” The man wondered.
“Senior, please spare me. I have family…” They begged, and they were scared out of their wits.
They lay on the ground like dogs, and all of them were dumbfounded. The man they tried to rob turned out to be a superior.
“Five bitches!”
That was Ding Hao’s definition of them, when seeing them beg for mercy.
Ding Hao withdrew his Qi and said with a grin, “Now you are docile? Take out all the treasures on you and I’ll spare your lives.” Then Ding Hao thought, “Damn it! How could I blurt out such things easily now? That must be due to being too long with Evil Moon and Fat Cat. I was contaminated by them.”
At the same time, in a valley thousands of meters away, a fat cat who was trying to escape suddenly sneezed and almost dropped the young hunter on his back down the hill.
Those five strong men looked at each other without expecting to be robbed instead. But they dared not disobey Ding Hao, so they obediently took out everything they had, such as Storage Rings, Space Bracelets, Space Bags and showed them to Ding Hao trembling with fear.
“F*ck, how come you’re so poor? More than forty days passed and you’ve only collected a few herbs? No ‘Heaven-Earth Blood Bone’? No ‘Jade in the Stone’? You jackasses. Have you been sleeping all this time?” Ding Hao said. He looked at their poor collections, and felt that the items of that robbery came from beggars. They were too poor. Their total collections were less than his.
“Senior, that’s all…” They said while wanting to cry.
If they could get such treasures as the “Heaven-Earth Blood Bone,” they wouldn’t have robbed him.
“Impossible, you must be playing with me. Strip off, I’ll frisk you…” Ding Hao became furious and forced the five poor men to take off all their armors. Then he scanned them one by one with Divine Awareness. The conclusion was that those five guys were indeed poor. Except for the things in front of them, they had nothing.
“Piss off. Daring to rob while being so poor…” Ding Hao waved his hand impatiently.
“Thank you senior, thanks a lot…”
“We appreciate you for not killing us…”
They only had underwear on them. When they heard that Ding Hao had spared them, they were overjoyed and escaped in a hurry without dressing. They only regretted that they only had two legs. Suddenly, Ding Hao saw something and yelled, “Stop. Come back.”
They froze and sighed in sorrow. They turned around slowly and said apologetically, “Senior, anything else?”
“Where did you get this?” Ding Hao said harshly while picking up the clothes that one of them had taken off. His voice was slightly trembling.
That was a very ordinary shirt which was used under robes. It was white with three knots. Although it was ordinary, it shocked Ding Hao. Because he was very familiar with that shirt. It was exactly the uniform used by disciples of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect. There was a silver sword pattern in the middle of the shirt, which was their sect symbol.